[dirtymac]

and the first slave owner was a black man.

[Tell It Right]

That's not true. Perhaps Antonio Johnson is the first person we have the name of on record as having slaves (from the Virginia court declaring his indentured servant to being "indentured servant for life" against his will).

As early as the first few English settlements there were whites brought here against their will from the streets of England -- often young runaways or orphans.